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flagstaff

noun
/ˈflæɡstæf/US/ˈflæɡstɑːf/UK

Etymology

From flag + staff.

  1. inherited from *stabaz✻
  2. inherited from *stab✻
  3. inherited from stæf — “letter of the alphabet”
  4. inherited from staf
  5. compounded as flagstaff — “flag + staff”

Definitions

  1. A pole on which a flag is raised.

    • Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white. This was run up the flagstaff in the farmhouse garden every Sunday morning.

  2. A city, the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, United States.

  3. A town in Victoria, Australia.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA